Health Policy category: 748 books
by David Hemenway
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a...
Tuberculosis—A Complex Health Threat
A Policy Primer of Global TB Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
The pervasiveness of global tuberculosis (TB) poses a particular set of challenges to policymakers. In order to make the necessary strategic decisions, it is essential to understand how the disease works and its impact on individuals, families, communities, and broader global health goals. This primer...
by Jodi L. Liu, Deborah Lai, Jeanne S. Ringel
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
A focused review of RAND Health research identified small ideas that could save the U.S. health care system $13 to $22 billion per year if successfully implemented. They include changing payment policy for emergency transport and greater use of $4 generic drugs. Small ideas do not require systemic...
Power and Conflict Between Doctors and Nurses
Breaking Through the Inner Circle in Clinical Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Through observations in three intensive care units, this book draws on the reality of practice to explore how nurses and doctors work in intensive care settings. It examines:
· the power held by the competing knowledge bases
· the roles of the different professions
· the decision-making...
Canadian Medicare
We Need It and We Can Keep It
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Medicare has been a crucial part of Canadian identity for nearly fifty years, and it stands in marked contrast to the US health system. But these facts alone do not protect it from dismissive swipes and criticisms, claims that the system is unsustainable, and even proposals to change medicare's fundamentals....
by Richard Tutton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the rise of biomedicine in the twentieth century, to the emergence of pharmacogenomics and personal genomics in the 1990s and 2000s. In the past when doctors...
Affordable Excellence
The Singapore Healthcare Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This is the story of the Singapore healthcare system: how it works, how it is financed, its history, where it is going, and what lessons it may hold for national health systems around the world. Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes, yet spends proportionally less on healthcare...
Women and Cardiovascular Disease
Addressing Disparities in Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the US and Europe today. Over the last 20 years, many innovations in technology have allowed for improved therapies for heart attack and stroke and overall outcomes have significantly improved. Death rates from cardiovascular...
The Addiction Solution
Treating Our Dependence on Opioids and Other Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A groundbreaking, “timely and well-written” (Booklist, starred review) guide to addiction from a psychiatrist and public health doctor, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance use and abuse.
Written with warmth, accessibility,...
Social and Administrative Aspects of Pharmacy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Present Challenges and Future Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Social and Administrative Aspects of Pharmacy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Present Challenges and Future Solutions examines the particularities of low- and middle-income countries and offers solutions based on their needs, culture and available resources. Drawing from the firsthand experience...
Privacy and Healthcare Data
'Choice of Control' to 'Choice' and 'Control'
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In order for the information society to realise its full potential, personal data has to be disclosed, used and often shared. This book explores the disclosure and sharing of data within the area of healthcare. Including an overview of how health information is currently managed, the authors argue...
Maternal Transition
A North-South Politics of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women’s preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this question vary from one community to the next, and often from woman to the next, although the trends in the Global North and South are strikingly different.
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by Andrew G. Biggs, Mark J. Browne, Barry K. Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
As America debates the merits of government-provided health insurance, it is important to note that the U.S. government is already the largest insurance provider in the world. For decades, it has used taxpayer funds to support the world's largest health care insurance programs (Medicare and Medicaid)...
Physical and Psychological Health Following Military Sexual Assault
Recommendations for Care, Research, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This paper reviews data on the prevalence of sexual assault among servicemembers, predictors of disclosure, efforts to improve disclosure, victim needs and DoD efforts to provide necessary resources in the immediate aftermath of a sexual assault. The authors compared civilian and DoD guidelines for care...